Sheet Music: Performance Parts

Techno logic : for string quartet / by Matthew Hindson.

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Instrumentation:
2 violins, viola, cello (CD required for Movt II (available from composer on request)). Amplification highly desirable.Requires the use of either a looping sampler or a pre-recorded CD.

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Techno logic was written in 1997 as a commission from
the Elektra String Quartet, and premiered by them in October of
that year. As the title suggests, a good deal of the music was
written using techniques found in techno music, including
repetition, parallel triadic harmony, block-line structures and
predominantly fast tempos. The structure of the piece as a whole
is reminiscent of Peter Sculthorpe's String Quartet No. 8. The
outer movements contain slower yet intense material with the
cello imitating the sound of the didjeridu. The 2nd and 4th
movements most obviously use features of techno music as
described above. The middle movement takes the form of a bizarre
ballet mechanique, wherein the two violins and cello play
unflinching regular single notes and motives above an
ever-present viola figure.